Jane Austen Sequels- Emma & Knightley: Perfect Happiness at Highbury: A Sequel to Jane Austen’s Emma, by Rachel Billington
Rachel Billington is a natural author for this Regency sequel to Jane Austen’s Emma. She lives part time in Dorset and loves to stroll through the English countryside like the heroine Emma did many, many years ago. Although the fashions, mode of transportation and road pavings have changed, the air is just as clean and fresh, the flowers just as fragrant, and the hills just as lush and vivid green as in Emma’s day.
In this fascinating sequel to Jane Austen’s original Emma, Emma is restless. However, she is just as spirited and irrepressible as ever. Mr. Knightley is overwhelmed. He not only has to deal with Emma, who he adores, but with his tiresome brother John and poor widowed Mr. Churchill.
Emma is rebelling against her husband. She is coming into her own as an adult and mistress of the manor after their first year of marriage. She wants to be treated as the intelligent and charming woman she is, not the child he married a short year before.
Mr. Knightley feels that Emma respects him, but he wants more, much more. He wishes for her to love and respect him as a husband. The novel highlights the problems and events that threaten to separate forever the bond between the newlywed couple. And, of course, Highbury is an important part of all the struggles and trials through this period of their lives.
Rachel Billington has a delightful understanding of the customs and styles of this period. With skill, she develops the characters of a young, slightly spoiled country heiress and the strong, self-assured man who would walk through fire for her as their marriage and relationship matures.
With any Regency sequel to Jane Austen’s Emma, there has to be romantic scenes to stir the souls of Jane Austen fans. Rachel Billington includes these, in a tasteful and entertaining style while staying true to the original novel’s roots.
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